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Teen decapitation murder leaves police shellshocked

They've never seen anything like it before

A teenage boy has decapitated one of his friends in a horrific act of revenge, after the older boy allegedly sexually assaulted his girlfriend.

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Sixteen-year-old Nikita Rasskazov killed Artyom Shustov before taking his severed head in a bag to girlfriend Olena Matsneva, as a token of his love for her to avenge the alleged sex attack.

 

Nikita, said to be known to be very calm admits he committed the murder and beheading in a Russian park – and is now facing a decade behind bars. The crime, what has shaken Russia, has left many stunned with its extreme brutality. 

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Police report that Olena said the dead boy molested her, groping her against her will at a party after she declined his sexual advances.

 

After Nikita met his friend in the park to discuss the alleged attack, the pair argued, with the violence escalating to a bloody murder. He stashed the head as a trophy, hiding it overnight in his bedroom wardrobe, before presenting it to his girlfriend. She was naturally distraught.

 

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‘My daughter literally blossomed when she began to date with Nikita,’ the girls mum told a Russian newspaper. ‘She was very worried if they quarrelled. 

 

‘He often visited our house, and was a very calm and quiet guy. I even wondered why my daughter chose Nikita rather than another lad. She said that Nikita was the best.’ 

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